Husband finally returned home December 4th. They flew into our state around 10 pm that night and the babies and I made the 35 minute drive to post for the redeployment ceremony scheduled at 12:30 am. Thankfully the speeches were short and we were soon on our way home.
I’m sure the weather change was a shock for all the soldiers who returned home in December. The week after husband’s group returned, we had the huge ice storm hit. Not only did it delay some of the last group returning, those who were already home had the pleasure of getting some real quality time with their families ha! Most everyone in our area lost power. Some had power off and on for three or four days – others lost power completely for the four days. Emergency shelters were set up, hotels that had power were booked solid….
Gosh you should have seen the trees we had down in our small town. It was something to see for sure. Our power was out off and on for three days. The first day, we lost power after midnight and it came back on for three or four hours the next evening. Just long enough for us to get the house warmed up again. The next two days the power was out all day for the most part and then would come back on for a few hours, cut back off, then come back on in four or five hours. It was a HUGE mess and I’m sure it was even harder on the soldiers who weren’t acclimated.
Christmas came and went all too quickly. I had waited on husband to return to do the Christmas shopping for the babies. He was returning early enough in December and I thought we’d have plenty of time to do the shopping together. Well, with the ice storm and the power out – we ended up having to rush to finish up shopping. I enjoyed every second I had with husband and the fact we were able to do all the shopping together, but it sure went by too fast because that week of the storm we weren’t able to do anything but try to stay warm and keep the water pipes in the house from freezing.
Husband’s 30 days of leave also went by too fast. He returned to work last week. A lot of folks are still on leave, so his work schedule, thankfully, isn’t quite normal just yet. We’re still able to enjoy spending some extra time together with PT not part of the schedule and him not working until 7 pm. He’s able to be home in the mornings to take the babies to school on his way to work and be home early enough to help with homework in the afternoons and sit down with us for supper.
Whelp, guess that’ll catch up the ol’ blog here with the latest happenings. Hope everyone’s year is off to a good start!
